Let's found
out what happen on 13th December over a years ago :
- 1545 - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III
- 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
- 1621 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
- 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
- 1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present day New Zealand; initially he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland
- 1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
- 1734 - England & Russia sign trade agreement
- 1742 - Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
- 1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
- 1774 - 1st incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire
- 1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
- 1889 - Belgium rules on women/child labor law
- 1902 - British and German ships begin to bombard the Venezuelan forts after President Castro refuses to comply with an ultimatum demanding that he claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899; Castro asks US President Roosevelt to arbitrate
- 1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone mound (NJ)
- 1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
- 1906 - German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
- 1913 - British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey proposes that southern Albania be divided between Greece and Albania with compensation to Greece in the Aegean islands
- 1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
- 1918 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
- 1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
- 1920 - F Pease's interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory is the first to measure the diameter of a star (Betelgeuse).
- 1920 - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
- 1930 - Theodore Steeg forms French government
- 1941 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
- 1941 - Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
- 1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
- 1942 - Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
- 1943 - 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
- 1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
- 1946 - Leon Blum elected French premier
- 1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
- 1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
- 1959 - Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
- 1960 - Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
- 1961 - Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
- 1961 - Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
- 1962 - Relay 1 communication satellite launched
- 1965 - Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
- 1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
- 1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
- 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1967 - Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
- 1968 - Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
- 1974 - Malta becomes a republic
- 1975 - Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
- 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
- 1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
- 1979 - Saudi Arabia raises marker crude price to $24 per barrel
- 1982 - Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
- 1983 - Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
- 1984 - Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
- 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1988 - 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
- 1988 - Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
- 1990 - South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
- 1990 - US Secretary of State Baker questions Iraq's seriousness about Middle East peace
- 1991 - Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
- 1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
- 1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
- 1996 - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- 1997 - 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
- 2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
- 2001 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
- 2002 - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
- 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
- 2004 - Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.
- 2007 - The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.
- 2012 - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute.
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